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I'm trying to compare proteins generated with prokka (from a genome) with blastp using a virulence factor database VFDB, and I want to use some parameters obtained from this paper:

blastp option, top hit, ≥50% identity, ≥50% alignment length, E-value of < 10 - 5

How can I specify those parameters on the command line?

# create DB
makeblastdb -in VFDB.fas -dbtype prot

# run blast
blastp -query my.faa -db VFDB.fas -out results.txt .....

any suggestion?

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You can use these options:

blastp -query my.faa -db VFDB.fas \
       -perc_identity 50 -outfmt 6 \
       -evalue 10e-5 -out results.txt

Then select the 5th column, qlen, and the 13th columns, slen, and get the percentage higher than 50.

awk  -F'\t' '{ if ($NF >= 50) printf "%s\t%.2f\n", $0 , ($2/$5)*100 }' result.txt

Check the documentation for the full -outfmt column names with blast -help

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks so much for the help. one more questions. I use the outfmt 6, and it have the next columns: qseqid, sseqid, pident, length, mismatch, gapopen, qstart, qend, sstart, send, evalue, bitscore. in this case which columns do I have to use to determinate the percent of alignment length? , thanks so much $\endgroup$
    – abraham
    Sep 12, 2021 at 6:46
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    $\begingroup$ you can configure outfmt 6 to produce a custom format, qlen and slen included, check the blastp -help $\endgroup$
    – zorbax
    Sep 13, 2021 at 6:59

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